Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Patrollers keep school kids safe

Crossing guards greet students on first day back to school

By , Calgary Sun

When Calgarian Jack O’Neill shepherded classmates as one of Alberta’s first school patrollers, he kept watch for horse-drawn vehicles.

But one of the select pioneering few has now grown to 16,000 province-wide — 7,000 in Calgary — and has kept their crosswalks fatality-free over 75 years.

“It’s really worked out well — I hope they keep it up,” said O’Neill, 82, who was on hand to greet current patrollers at Cambrian Heights elementary, 640 Northmount Dr. N.W. on Tuesday as more than 150,000 Calgary students returned to school.

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